Wednesday, June 20, 2012

nars deep throat blush

Deep Throat (stay with me here!) is a powder blush described as 'peach with shimmer' which personally I find much more pink than peach - for reference I would call Gina a true peach personally! I've wanted this shade for a while and finally got it applied in Selfridges last week. The MUA - the campest French guy ever, he was awesome (!) - wanted me to go for Gaiety which did look nice but as I'm prone to blushing easily I like a warmer shade to balance it out.

I love the slight hint of shimmer in this - perfect for when you don't have enough time to apply highlighter, but it also works just as well with one. NARS blushes like this work especially well with NARS highlighter powders (who'd have thought..), my cheeks are loving NARS products lately it seems! It's really easy to build up the intensity of the shade or just apply lightly for a wash of colour. I tend to do the latter with this one as it's quite pink on me!

If you're after one of these blushes but aren't sure which shade to go for, I'd definitely recommend this one. Everyone says Orgasm is the best, which I have and do use/enjoy but the shimmer in Deep Throat is much more subtle so it's a lot harder to go overboard with it. My eyes look green in the photo, but the blush shade is true to life I promise!

Love the color, and I guess I love the name too. NARS has some quite interesting names. I love your skin in the last picture, it's glowing!I've never tried a high end blush, because I'm more of a bronzer fan, but if I tried one, I'd definitely try Deep Throat or Orgasm because they have such positive reviews and there is a lot of positive feedback on the two. My face powder is by NARS, so I know I love their products already.

My favourites are Taj Mahal, Orgasm and Taos. My parents are Caribbean so I'm a lot darker then you but these look great on all different skin tones (apart from Taj Mahal which is super orange so probably would look weird on paler skin)